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I didn’t get that from listening to the Despot who is running our country. I had better things to do than listen to lying a scum bag tell us about the great job he thinks he has done. I spent my evening listing to the Pitt/Connecticut game. Even with a loss for my alma mater the evening was more fulfilling that listening to that windbag receive applause from his mindless minions.

I didn’t have to listen to George II to know what the state of the Union is. Look around.

Today 42 Senators in a meaningless gesture voted “NO” on Alito’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. That’s 42 Seantors who could have stopped this confirmation by voting “NO” on cloture if they really didn’t want this man to sit on the nation’s highest court. Some of those 42 Senators deserve the blame when Thomas, Alito, Scalia, and Roberts start rolling back the rights the court has staked out over the last half century and start dialing in dicatorial powers for the Preznit.

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Where else can I be blindingly, obviously wrong on a consistent basis, never self-examine or hear criticism, never get held accountable for my failures, and pull home mid-six figures, huh?

Seriously, anyone who says Biden is worthy, plausible, or preferable Dem candidate in ‘08 deserves a kick in the nads.

The wholly-heterosexual and definitely Republican General JC Christian, who happens to live here in the Soviet of Washington, staked his claim on Maria Cantwell’s uterus today.

Sen. Maria Cantwell
United States Senate

Dear Sen. Cantwell,

Thank you for voting to give me complete ownership of my wife’s uterus. Your vote against the filibuster means a lot me. I’ve been eyeing Ofjoshua’s uterine property for years.

I’d like to return the favor. It’s a shame that your own uterus continues to be unclaimed by any man. We can’t allow that–it’s just too much responsibility. That’s why I’ve decided to ease your burden by laying claim to it myself.

No need to worry about anything. Just give me a call if you want to use your my uterus, and I’ll decide whether to allow it.

Of course, you’ll need to tattoo the words “Property of Gen. JC Christian, patriot” on your abdomen or wherever it is you keep those things. Be sure to leave room for another tattoo in case I decide to sell your my uterus to someone else.

Heterosexually* yours,

Gen. JC Christian, patriot

*I’m not hitting on you. It’s just very important to me that people know that I’m a heterosexual. Cletis is a god damned liar!

Well done, sir. Well done.

… is that they are remarkably top heavy.

That said, my countertop is the cleanest it’s been in 6 months.

I felt dirty after slogging through the freeper comments for the Jill Carroll update, so I thought I’d check out the polls they were trying to Freep.

Here’s one, on AOL.
1. Grade Bush’s performance A-F
2. Is the country better/same/worse since he came to office?

Over 350,000 votes in, and… the freepers are powerless against the reality based community. Bush is given an F by 45% of the respondents, and it’s 63/29/8 worse/better/same. Still, can’t hurt to throw your hat into the ring.

In conjunction with the Bloggies, this is good evidence that the right wing blogosphere is a steadily diminishing empty vessel. Just a bunch of hate-filled gasbags with no power against we, the People.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of racist, fascist fucktards.

20 Democrats abandoned their party and abandoned their people today, by refusing to vote to resist cloture or by actively voting to stop discussion about the nomination of Sam Alito to the Supreme Court.

20 Democrats just aided the end of Roe v. Wade, the diminution minority rights, and the expansion of the power of the Executive.

These same Democrats are going to vote against confirming Alito on the floor tomorrow. When it is too late. Much, much too late.

I will do everything in my power, from here until the day one of us dies, to remove these Democrats from power. Here is the list. A ‘Yes’ means they voted for cloture; in other words, to end debate and bring the confirmation to the floor where only a majority approval is required. Bold is for the ones I would kick in the nuts twice instead of just once. Because it would make me feel good.

Akaka, Daniel K. (D-HI) Yes
Baucus, Max (D-MT) Yes
Bingaman, Jeff (D-NM) Yes (nice job, NM)
Byrd, Robert C. (D-WV) Yes
Cantwell, Maria (D-WA) Yes. One of my senators. You’re toast, sister.
Carper, Thomas R. (D-DE) Yes
Conrad, Kent (D-ND) Yes
Dorgan, Byron L. (D-ND) Yes
Harkin, Tom (D-IA) NV NV. Pussy.
Inouye, Daniel K. (D-HI) Yes
Johnson, Tim (D-SD) Yes
Kohl, Herb (D-WI) Yes
Landrieu, Mary L. (D-LA) Yes
Lieberman, Joseph I. (D-CT) Yes. Support his possible opponent – Ned Lamont
Lincoln, Blanche L. (D-AR) Yes
Nelson, Bill (D-FL) Yes
Nelson, E. Benjamin (D-NE) Yes
Pryor, Mark L. (D-AR) Yes
Rockefeller, John D., IV (D-WV) Yes
Salazar, Ken (D-CO) Yes

The party establishment has failed and is a continuing failure. Reid is a failure as a minority lead. Private parties such as NARAL screwed the pooch. Surprisingly, Biden and Jim Jeffords voted no.

The DSCC will not see a cent of my money. The DNC will not see a cent of my money. So long as we are locked in a two-party system, they will get my vote if the opponent is a Republican, but as for the rest of the time, the Democratic party can go fuck itself.

You know the phrase “mad enough to spit tacks?” Well, I think I fully understand it now.

I don’t want to hear about “we tried.” I don’t want to hear how “elections have consequences.” All that we learned today is that the Democratic establishment is worthless. An opposition party that can’t slow down the opposition for even one day, not even to deny an evil, mendacious, fucktard of a President his gloating achievement on the day of the State of the Union address, is not much of an opposition party. An opposition party that can barely get half of its members to unify to try and stop a judge to the right of Bork and only a bit left of Attila the Hun? We have failed? Nay, the senators failed each and every one of us.

So enough of your rah rah homilies Digby and ReddHedd and kos and Matt (also, ReddHedd, please stop with the baseball metaphors. You’re making baby FSM cry). While we’re at it, a big F U to the amazingly banal and ignorant Kevin Drum. 25 votes may have been remarkable, historically-speaking, but it is insufficient. Our legal landscape has just become beholden to the American Taliban for the next 30 years. Fuck your good cheer. It’s time to burn the house down and rebuild anew. A special Fuck You goes out to all the Dems who supported the idiotic “keep our powder dry” strategery they pursued in not fighting the Roberts nomination.

Excuse me while I go and drink a toast to the country that I used to know. A country that shines on only in memory now.

My letter to Cantwell after the jump. FWIW, I also sent thank you letters to Kennedy and Kerry for leading the filibuster charge and Murray for voting no. I didn’t have it in me for the other 22, but I’ve got their backs. (more…)

scAlito’s in, no filibuster. I have a longer post on this topic, but I’m waiting for a full list of the 20 Democratic traitors who voted aye on cloture.

I do know that among them is my own Senator Maria Cantwell.

The term “rage” springs to mind.

More later.

I’ve got a serious case of the Mondays over here. The playground is all yours.

January 11, 2006

Establishing democracy to replace the tyrannys will assist in defeating terrorists — George W. Bush

January 29, 2006

We do not provide funding, money to terrorist organizations. Hamas is a terrorist organization. — Sean McCormack

Here we have what could be identified as the Bush Paradox.

Tyrants cause terrorism —> Democracy will help us defeat Terrorists —–> The Democratic process elected Terrorists as leaders. —-> We can’t support Democratically elected Terrorists ——-> We can support unelected tyrants in Saudi Arabia etc that are friendly to us.

Perhaps the Bush Administration actually accepts Arrow’s Paradox, which simply and incompletely stated says that the only voting system that isn’t flawed is a dictatorship.

If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier
– so long as I’m the dictator. —George W Bush

Check out what Mark Shapiro just did:

swapped Coco Crisp for supermegaawesomeprospect Andy Marte
Josh “no stick” Bard for Kelly “blocked but good” Shoppach
David Riske for Guillermo Mota
+ cash.

Net: -1 decent OF, + at 3B (big need for Indians) and C, = at relief.

But he’s not done. Oh, no.

Swaps A. Rhodes for J. Michaels.

Net: -1 good reliever, +1 OF ~= Crisp.

net of all this: More depth, great prospect at 3B, slight downgrade at a position (relief pitching) that is both easy to fill and where they have tons of depth. They traded a guy they didn’t need for one that they really did, and managed to fill the just-created hole anyway. All for almost no cost.

I can understand why the BoSox did it – I don’t agree, but I understand. They needed to win now and needed an OF. The cash on top of it all seems ridiculous, but when you’ve got their budget, you probably don’t care all that much. The Phillies? Not so much, except that Rhodes is a Gillick guy, and he helps Philly in their attempt to recreate the 2001 Mariners.

The only question mark here is Marte’s shoulder. If it’s damaged more than public information has it, he may never pan out instead of becoming Aramis Ramirez+.

In a nutshell: I love Mark Shapiro and I wish he was running the M’s.

Great mockumentary of a couple hard core role players. If you’ve been there, you know this is true. Good times.

Amazing what people can do for very little money these days, huh. Digital camera, some software… a tripod… a couple people from the acting workshop… a park bench…

I really need to stop eating breakfast during Meet the Press. Bill Frist almost made me throw up this morning.

Tim Russet Challenged Frist with a word for word quote that Frist had made on CNBC regarding his HCA stock:

So far as I know. I own no HCA stock. …It’s a blind trust. Totally blind.

Russet pointed out to Frist, that this statement was a lie. Frist knew that he owned HCA stock. If he didn’t, how the heck was he able to tell the trust manager to divest it?

First’s reponse was:

I could’ve been more precise. What I should’ve said is that at any point in time, because this is a blind trust, I have no idea how much stock of any particular entity is in at any point in time.

God, he’s as accomplished at spin as the Preznit. How many people can take an outright lie, “I own no HCA stock” and with a totally straight face try to sell it as being the less precise equivalent of “I don’t know how much HCA stock I own”

Make sure to eat some noodles and, I’m told, an orange.

While speaking at a tradionally black college in Little Rock Arkansas, Fascist Spokesmodel, Ann Coulter, called for the assassination of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens so that a more conservative judge could be appointed to his position.

We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens’ creme brulee — Ann Coulter

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Jill Carroll, in case you haven’t been following the story, was a reporter in Iraq. She was kidnapped not long ago (and her interpreter was killed), with the kidnappers demanding that the US release Iraqi women in exchange for Ms. Carroll. This seemed bizarre on its face, but, hey, who knows what lurks in the mind of these kidnappers, huh?

Well, it turns out, that there is more to the story. You see, the reason why Ms. Carroll was kidnapped and why they asked for the release of women in US custody is because we have been kidnapping suspected guerilla leaders’ wives when we cannot get to the man.

U.S. forces in Iraq, in two instances described in military documents, took custody of the wives of men believed to be insurgents in an apparent attempt to pressure the suspects into giving themselves up.

Both incidents occurred in 2004. In one, members of a shadowy military task force seized a mother who had three young children, still nursing the youngest, “in order to leverage” her husband’s surrender, according to an account by a civilian Defense Intelligence Agency intelligence officer.

In the other, an e-mail exchange includes a U.S. military officer asking “have you tacked a note on the door and challenged him to come get his wife?”

The documents were among thousands obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union from the government under court order through the Freedom of Information Act.
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t described the actions of Task Force 6-26, which has been mentioned in other documents in connection with allegations of detainee abuse, and stated that on May 9, 2004, task force personnel detained the wife of “a suspected terrorist” in Tarmiya, Iraq.

“The 28-year-old woman had three young children at the house, one being as young as six months and still nursing. Her husband was the primary target of the raid, with other suspect personnel subject to detainment as well,” the memo stated.

“During the pre-operational brief, it was recommended by TF (task force) personnel that if the wife were present, she be detained and held in order to leverage the primary target’s surrender,” the memo stated. Its author said that “I objected to the detainment of the young mother to the raid team leader” and “I believed it was a dead issue.”

This is abominable on many levels. This also happens to be a violation of the Geneva conventions, Article 34.

Art. 34. The taking of hostages is prohibited.

I am really tired of living in a country run by an administration that does not respect the rule of law or anything other than their own twisted, narcissistic fantasies. That we are violating the Geneva conventions (again), is the direct result of an illegal, illegitimate, preemptive war and for which the miserable failure bears full responsibility.

Impeach George Bush. Impeach him now.

Update: on the day that scAlito’s nomination was just sent to the floor, I thouhgt I’d give a taste of the kind of discourse we are going to have when the American Taliban takes over.

Why should she be upset — She’s among friends…

I have NO sympathy for her — sorry
3 posted on 01/30/2006 6:08:01 PM PST by conservativehusker (GO BIG RED!!!!)

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I’m sorry, but for some reason I’m not convinced she’s not faking it.

I’ve seen both videos. In the first, I did not see any fear in her eyes.

In the second, she seemed to me to be acting.

I base all this in the context of having watched other hostage videos and saw plenty of fear in the eyes of the captives.
10 posted on 01/30/2006 6:21:38 PM PST by FReepaholic (Proud participant in FR mass hysteria since 1998)

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The radical Ialamic mouthpiece, Aljazera, did not air the audio from this tape or from her previous tape. I have a strong feeling that her tears were not for herself. She just does not seem like the type of person who would have this type of fear for herself. I think she is crying in empathy from a different sort of threat.

I would love to see a lip reader’s transcript of her tapes.
14 posted on 01/30/2006 6:23:17 PM PST by Jeff Gordon (Is tractus pro pensio.)

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Regardless of her political inclinations, were the Islamofascists to execute her, it would confirm the need to invade their countries and kill their leaders – lets not make the same mistake we made in the 20’s and 30’s.

22 posted on 01/30/2006 7:11:14 PM PST by spanalot

If I hear anyone in my presence say one more time how it is the left bringing incivility to our culture, I’m going to kick them in their nether regions.